If, during the study of the document, material defects, errors, or omissions arise, such as those relating to volume, folio, entry, location, and any other data that do not alter the intention of the parties nor essentially modify the act or contract, the document shall be registered—if no other defects prevent it—and the Registrar shall note them, so that the notary, upon receiving the registered document, may make the corresponding correction in the margin of the original instrument (escritura original). Likewise, the notary may, by leaving the corresponding note in the margin of the original instrument, correct this kind of defect, error, and omission, without prejudice to the powers also granted by Articles 62 and 62 bis a) of the Organic Law of Notarial Practice; in addition, they may correct other errors that the parties have authorized them to amend or include data that the parties authorize them to record.
The other defects must be clearly and detailedly indicated in the respective defect note (minuta), without it being permitted to do so on the document, whose cleanliness must be maintained, with the legal citations on which it is based, within the time period and under the sanctions for non-compliance determined by the regulations.
All defects must be indicated at once; once these are corrected, the document must be registered within the time period indicated by those regulations, with the sanctions the same determines for cases of non-compliance.
Once the defects initially noted are corrected, no new defects may be indicated, and the respective document must be registered.
(As amended by Article 18 of Law No. 6575 of April 27, 1981)